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Issue number nineteen | Spring 2017 170222-SonyAd-M Magazine-8_375x10_875-2a-Final.indd 1 3/6/17 11:31 AM Magnolia | Bringing inspiration to your space for over 60 years™ 4 creative director/editor-in-chief 2 Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly talks Magnolia adrian clift Inspiration, happiness and peace of mind. senior writer/executive editor karl kozlowski 4 Welcome aboard a nautical paradise marketing manager Magnolia brings home entertainment to a yacht. rachel heinen content providers 10 Sony’s new visual masterpieces madeline plahn | brian mcfadden Explore Sony’s latest innovations in video technology. neal schoenecker | josh fettig 14 technical advisor 14 Derek Trucks and Bowers & Wilkins speakers david barnett Magnolia sits down with Derek to talk music and speakers. editor rachel imbrock | melissa bergquist 20 Wrap yourself in cinema sound digital assets Get to know Dolby Atmos®. julie eiden feature photography 24 A dream install of a dream home alexhayden.com Bringing home entertainment to a 21,000 square foot beauty. additional feature photography & retouching 24 30 The benefits of Play-Fi Best Buy Studio Bring premium wireless audio to your entire home. Want to know more? 34 Penthouse amenities for all Visit us online at MagnoliaAV.com, Premium entertainment for a luxury apartment tower. BestBuy.com/magnolia, or follow us at: facebook.com/ 40 The only THX-certified native 4K projector MagnoliaExperience and 30 The JVC DLA-RS4500K projector stands alone. twitter.com/MagnoliaAV. Something you’d like us to know? 42 Mixing technology with concrete M magazine welcomes your comments Magnolia decks out the new headquarters of Barrier One. and observations. Please send them to: Magnolia Marketing Dept. 46 Voice control and the smart home Attn. Rachel Heinen Is the future just a holler away? 7601 Penn Avenue South, Richfield, MN 55423 or via e-mail to 40 48 A passion for service [email protected]. Legendary Magnolia System Designer Dwaine Randall. BEST BUY, the BEST BUY logo, the tag design, MAGNOLIA and the MAGNOLIA logo are trademarks of Best Buy and its affiliated companies. To view this issue, or previous issues of M Magazine online, © 2017 Best Buy. All rights reserved. visit MagnoliaAV.com. 650-0335159 42 find us online @ magnoliaav.com & bestbuy.com/magnolia 1 Best Buy® is the parent company of Magnolia – with the two stores working in tandem to give customers the ultimate INSPIRATION, solutions in home entertainment. M Magazine recently sat down with the CEO of Best Buy, Hubert Joly, to discuss his thoughts about Magnolia, and the business of inspiring customers to make them truly happy. HAPPINESS M: What are the benefits of having Magnolia inside select system, so anything hooked up to my network can be Best Buy locations? How does this help differentiate monitored remotely, and they can fix most problems before & PEACE Best Buy from its competitors? I’m even aware they exist. It’s a services-oriented, end-to- Hubert: We need to start with our customers’ needs. end approach to customers’ home entertainment needs—it’s Technology is getting more and more exciting. It’s also more happiness guaranteed. OF MIND and more complex. Because it’s all getting connected, many BEST BUY CEO HUBERT JOLY TALKS MAGNOLIA of us need help with it. In particular, people need help to M: Where do you see technology going in the future? How know what’s possible, to be inspired by what technology can Magnolia help to make this a reality? can do, then they need the personal assistance to make it a Hubert: Our focus is on the smart home, the connected reality in their home. Magnolia is a great illustration of that, home. The average American home has around 10 devices of showing customers what’s possible and inspiring them to connected to the network. I think that number is going to go fulfill their home entertainment dreams with premium audio, up rapidly, so people will eventually have 18, 24, 48 devices, video and home automation solutions. all connected to their network. One of the things we know What’s exciting for me, as a customer of Magnolia, is that the complexity of the network goes up exponentially is having a System Designer who inspires me and shows with the number of devices on it. So customers are going me those possibilities. Our goal is that every customer to need help in terms of knowing what’s possible, making has a one-to-one connection with their System Designer. it happen and keeping it going. That’s where Magnolia I have Tyler Thomas. He’s absolutely wonderful. When comes in, inspiring customers, changing their lives and you combine the showrooms and our System Designers, making it easy. Our mission isn’t to sell products, it’s to help Magnolia can change your life. System Designers come to customers enrich their lives and pursue their passion with your home, understand what you want, and provide you this technology, and Magnolia makes that happen every day. with the inspiration and know-how you need. Then, with the help of Magnolia Engineers, Project Managers and Installers, M: From a personal perspective – where does your passion that dream is brought to life. It’s a wonderful experience that for technology, in particular home entertainment, come takes you beyond buying products, to buying experiences. from? Hubert: I’ve always been a big fan of music, ever since M: What are your thoughts about Magnolia today, and more I was a young boy. I love listening to music. I stream high- importantly, where do you see Magnolia going in the future? resolution music throughout the house using the Tidal audio Hubert: From the standpoint of creating happy customers, service. It’s such a wonderful experience – the quality of the Magnolia is a fabulous story. Magnolia is in the happiness sound is exquisite. I also love watching movies. I have over business. Best Buy is in the happiness business. One of my 800 movies that I watch through Kaleidescape. Magnolia is own experiences as a Magnolia customer is with my outdoor doing wonders in both of these areas. With premium audio speakers. Sitting on the terrace of my home, reading a book and video, and the smart home solutions to bring them in the summer and listening to these incredible outdoor together, not only do you get premium products, but you speakers, it’s life changing. Or listening to hi-res audio get the help you need to bring home an unmatched home throughout my house with incredible sound quality – it’s entertainment experience. happiness. When you’re ready to get inspired, stop into your You also get peace of mind with Magnolia Care. If nearest Magnolia Design Center. Here, you’ll find a System there are ever any issues, and they will arise from time to Designer waiting to become your go-to assistant in this Hubert Joly with System Designer Tyler Thomas in time, I call my Magnolia Care technician, Mike Lynch, and incredible world of technology, with a showroom filled with one of the Audio Demo he comes out in a very timely manner and fixes them. premium products that will bring true entertainment bliss Rooms at the Richfield Magnolia Design Center. Magnolia Care also offers remote management of my into your life. 2 | Bringing inspiration to your space for over 60 years™ find us online @ magnoliaav.com & bestbuy.com/magnolia 3 5 find us online @ magnoliaav.com & bestbuy.com/magnolia & bestbuy.com/magnolia find us online @ magnoliaav.com SPK SPK For Mr. Wasserman, leaving dry land for the open seas meant not meant dry land for the open seas leaving Wasserman, Mr. For Jay Wasserman, a big fan of audio, video and home automation, is also a video and home automation, a big fan of audio, Wasserman, Jay Manager Chris with Magnolia Project Having worked big fan of Magnolia. multiple times home updated Texas he has seen his for many years, Forister relationship a close say it’s To gear. home entertainment latest with the mentioned he had a new Jay But when would be an understatement. 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